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AUGUSTUS H. CLEMENT, 0F SUNBURY, PENNSYLVANIA. Letters Patent No. 69,969, dated October 22, 1867.

Inraovsn WASHING MACHINE.

i Be known that I,`AUGUSTUS H. CLEMENT, of the borough of Sunbury, in the count'y of Northumberland, und Stato of'Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful machine for washing clothing, any cloth or woollen fabric,`styled a Double-Acting Washing Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following is a-f'ull, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the saine, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part ol` this specilication, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, in which- Figure' 1 is a vertical section, and

Figure 2 a horizontal section, taken at xt z, lig. 1. V I construct my washing machine in the form of a box. At a point equidistant from `both ends'oi` the box'I insert a straight or curved'lever, A, on pivots a. To the bottom of the lever I attach a board, B, perforated with holes or a rack. .At each' end of the box I insert a perforated board or rack, C, in one 4of three or more grooves, b, inthe sides of the box, at a radius with the centreor pivot in the lever, which can be changed nearer or further distant from-the centre to suit either the amount of water desired to be used or the quantity of clothes' to be washed; and with the racks or perforated slides at cach end, arranged in a radius with the centre or pivot, an equal pressure of the clothes between them and the lever is at'all times secured. I construct the box with.

a doublebottom, the inner one, D, of which is constructed in a half circle or curve, using the lower end 'of the* lever as a radius, and is .perforated to enable the water, when the clothes are pressed at one end of the machine, to pass back to the other end and loosen up the clothes already pressed. Tho-pivots' of the lever restl on two half'circular pieces of wood, E, fitted inthe sides of the machine so .as to press upon and secure the perforated boards o1' racks Ain the grooves at each e"nd of the machine. These pc'ccs of wood can be easily removed and replaced in changing the racks or perforated boards from one groove to the other.

With a machine so constructed clothes can be placed at each end of the machine, on both sides of thelever, and while they are being washed at one end the water, rushingbnck through the fnlse or circular bottom, and being agitated by `the action of the lever, loosens up and rinses the clothes at the other end of themaehine, and prepares them'for another application of the lever.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

` Thecoinbination of the perforated bottom D and perforated slides C, in radial grooves b, 'boards E, and beater A B, substantially as described.

AUGUSTUS H. CLEMENT. Witnesses:

S. BRoLvan'roN, J. I C. WELKER. 

